Sweet chapter! Even though ToG isn't supposed to have it's focus on the fighting aspect of the story, when they do get down to business...

That was pretty damn nice actually, he's not exactly stomping Daniel but he's showing his unique ability again and also seems to have improved it a bit, I was afraid he'd be like Kakashi(before the chronic asspulls) and have 1000's of techniques but use less than 1% of them. I guess those martial arts/technique manuals strewn on his room floor a while back weren't for nothing.

3 chapters in a row! Knock on wood! Baam is BAWS in these chapters.

I forgot to mention previosuly: Lol @ Boro being the only one getting offscreened (although his fight is no doubt the most dull) and also @ everyone (Daniel & Wha Ryun) dissing Yura.

Well that was goood

What I missed that. When was this?

Also a true Ha would ditch the stairs and just jump straight up XD

I was actually trying to find it but my Internet is slow so I quickly gave up, but if you're interested in some sleuthing you might try finding the panel. It happens in Wha Ryun's room in train city, so it shouldn't be that hard to find.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

found some references in One Piece to the real world through all these years.
This is what I found:

Characters from other tales:

- Monkey D. Luffy characterized as Gokuh, being a "monkey" both in name and behavior.
- Usopp as Pinocchio.
- Usopp (in Kuro arc) also representing the tale of The Shepherd's boy and the Wolf.
- Captain Kuro as Freddy Krueger.
- Sanji is "the invisible man". Although not literally speaking like Absalom, but he is the one that is unnoticed most of the times by marines or enemies until the very end.
- He is not found and depicted by the Unluckies.
- He doesn't meet anyone in Little Garden.
- He doesn't meet Mr.2 at the Merry and because of that Crocodile has no clue of him existing even
after he's tricked by Sanji.
- He doesn't meet anyone from Bellamy's crew or Blackbeard's crew in Jaya.
- He's not seen with his crew in Water 7. Allowing him to sneak into the Umi Ressha and the CP9 not
caring him until he tricks them.
- Marine's photographer can't take a pic of him and his wanted poster doesn't ressembles him at all, keeping him invisible at the world's eyes.
- Sanji is also a reference to Dragon Ball's Super Saiyans. Hair bristles (except eyebrow cover) and flames cover his body as the Super saiyan's aura or enerfy radiance.
- First, he "goes super saiyan" only led by his rage. (At Thriller Bark when said Nami is still kept by
Absalom).
- After training, he "goes super saiyan" at will. (As when ending the fight with Wadatsumi).
- Dracule Mihawk is characterized as Count Dracula. By name and also by his "home" and boat, depicting him as a vampire.
- Chopper as Rudolph.
- Chopper as Abominable Snowman.
- Mr. 2 Bon Kure as Lloyd Christmas (fom Dumb and Dumber) for his looks and as "The Mask" (from The Mask) for his power and behavior. Both characters played by Jim Carrey.
- Crocodile as Captain Hook.
- Crocodile referencing T-1000 from Terminator 2, when shot at the head in Impel Down.
- Pell as Horus.
- Chaka as Anubis.
- Van Augur as Adolphus from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Jesus Burgess as Albrecht "strongest man in the world" also from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Doc Q as the Queen of Snow White.
- Doflamingo as Spiderman.
- Gan Fall as Don Quixote (from his own story).
- Franky as a mix between Popeye and Ace Ventura.
- Hildon (Zombie nº 21) as Hiruma from Eyeshield 21.
- Absalom as a beast from The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Dr. Hogback as The Penguin from Batman.
- Ryuuma as himself from Oda's WANTED.
- Captain John as Captain Jonathan Flint from Treasure Island.
- Lola's Zombie as Peggy Muppets.
- Victoria Cindry (zombie) as Sally (from Nightmare before Christmas).
- Duval as "The man in the iron mask". (Obvious iron mask. He being some kind of "double" of another person).
- Peterman as (alternative) Robin Hood.
- Sentomaru as Kintaro.
- Boa Hancock is a reference to Medusa.
- Emporio Ivankov as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (from The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
- Inazuma as Edward Scissorhands.
- Inazuma as Cruela de Vil also.
- King Dew as He-man.
- A pirate from Whitebeard pirates ressembles Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII.
- Ace dies in a way similar to Gokuh dying for the first time.
- Sanjuan Wolf as Hagrid (from Harry Potter).
- Vasco Shot as Sloth (from The Goonies).
- Ame no Shilliew as General Washizaki.
- Panfleet Admiral Kong is modeled after Kongou Banchou.
- The past of Luffy, Ace and Sabo, a reference to Tekkonkinkreet.
- Sabo as Oliver Twist.
- His hat, one from Linda Perry (from 4 Non Blondes)
- Baron Tamago as a mix between Dr. Robotnik and the man from Monopoly.
- Baby 5, at least to me, totally looks like Babydoll (from Sucker Punch).
- Baby 5, in his torpede form, is a reference to Torpedo Girl (from Bobobo).
- Leo is modeled after Leo Messi (best soccer player). Maybe his crown unbends at the end of the summer depending on which country wins the World Cup...
- Wicca is a reference to WIlly wonKA.
- Sugar is a reference to Amélie Poulain.

Artists:

- Jango as Michael Jackson (hair style, moonwalk).
- Monkey D. Garp as Sean Connery
- Captain Bogard as Humphrey Bogart.
- Mr. 5 as Lenny Kravitz
- Lafitte as Iwatani Tokiko and Pinky and the killers.
- Donquixote Doflamingo as Michael Bolton dressed like Jean Michel Polnareff.
- Eneru as Eminem.
- Aokiji as Matsuda Yūsaku.
- Rob Lucci as Slash (from Guns'n'Roses)
- The unnamed CP9 from the past could be a reference to Brian May (from Queen).
- Brook as Jimmy Hendrix.
- Brook also as Michael Jackson. (Black man becoming white. Zombie. The 45º move.)
- Perona as Emillie Autumn.
- Killer as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (from Daft Punk).
- Eustass Kid's crew as a reference to different styles of Heavy Metal music (one per crewmate). And also his ability to manipulate metal.
- Basil Hawkins as Jordison (from Slipknot).
- Kizaru as Tanaka Kunie.
- Although most surely this was not Oda's intentions, Jinbe very much resembles Spanish-gypsy artist Falete.
- Akainu as Sugawara Bunta.
- Makugai as Gérard Depardieu in his role as Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask.
- This may be pure coincidence, but Shanks and Johnny Depp resemble each other.
- Fujitora as Katsu Shintaro.

Other character references:

- Shushu is modeled after Hachikō, the dog that waited for his dead owner everyday at Shibuya Station until he died too.
- Fishmen and merfolk play the role of black people. Notice that no character is black. Not even the ones with "afro hair".
- Blackbeard actually representing real life Balckbeard.
- The Gorosei members are modeled after some notorious people in history:
- One as Mikhail Gorbachev.
- One as Mahatma Gandhi.
- Foxy as Count Chocula.
- Vice-Admiral Yamakaji as Fidel Castro.
- Makro and his crew are a reference to the real life existence of black slave holders. Or any other example of someone enslaving his fellows.
- Trafalgar Law as Valentino Rossi aka "Il Dottore".
- Capone as reference to the Italian mafia.
- Magellan as Satan.
- Fisher Tiger as Che Guevara.
- Thunder Soldier is a reference to terrorist Guy Fawkes.

Culture:

- Arlong is a reference to Loan Sharks.
- Dorry and Brogy as the ogres from Naita Akaoni (The crying red ogre). Indeed, Brogy (the red ogre) is the one who cries as Dorry is still alive.
- Civil war is an episode of many and many nations all over the world, and it is the theme of Arabasta arc.
- American Colonial Wars (both in north america and in central and south america) are the theme for Skypiea's arc.
- The Davy Back Fight is reference to Davy Jones.
- The Admirals represent each a particular vision or feature of Justice:
- Aokiji represents the slow procedures justice (and burocracy in general) may take.
- Kizaru represents the corruption of justice. Chasing after something for unrighteous resons but
justifying it oficially as though it is a threat for people. Seen in his attitude of lying, saying that
something is terrifying and playing scared.
- Akainu represents the most strict and oppressing justice in which everything that could be seen as
a threat, a felony or a missbehavior must be punished. No excpetion.
- Fujitora represents the blind justice. Clear evidence is not enough. There must be some proof to
demonstrate guilt.
- Also, CP9 represents Machiavelli's most famous sentence "The goal justifies the means."
- Slavery is the theme for the Shabondy Arc.
- Jailers and chiefs in Impel Down are a referencte to the SS personal guard to Adolf Hitler.
- Hannyabal is another reference to ancient Egypt gods.
- Impel Down is based on Dante's representation of hell.
- Shi no kuni is a reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvio at Pompeia. (Check for images of the victims).

Architectonics:

- Logue Town ressembles Torino (Italy) or at least has architectonics similar to those of Piemonte region. Torino is just an example I came up with.
- Whiskey Peak has architectonics of Caribbean small towns in the colonial period. Maybe due to the Grand Line representing The Caribbean Sea, and Whiskey Peak being the first island seen there.
- Arabasta represents the Ancient Egypt.
- Water 7 is modeled after Venezia.
- Amazon Lily is a reference to the village from The Adventures of Asterix.
- Dressrosa is modeled after Spain in many ways.
- Culture, including the corruption.
- The gladiators fights, they existed for long time while Spain was part of the Roman Empire.
- Now, gladiators fights evolved into "tauromaquia". Shows where many men humilliate, torture and
assassinate bulls. That is why there are fighting fish (being half bull half fish) at the colosseum.
- Violet outfit and first appearance are reference to "flamenco" music and dancing genre.
- Many buildings at the streets exist in Barcelona (dessigned by Antoni Gaudí).
- The most famous appeared being "Parc Güell", which is actually the giant plateau where the royal
palace is.
- Also appears "Puente Grande" from Málaga.
- And the Royal Palace is in fact "La Alhambra" from Granada.

There are lots more references in names of characters and locations. But listing that would be much harder
------------------------------------------------------
There's more:
-Dr. Martin Luther King as Otohime and Fisher Tiger as Malcolm X (who advocated separation and whites as evil, then changed just before he died (after making a long trip to Mecca where he realized there were good white people, too), while MLK advocated peace and equality. Both were assassinated). Can't believe no one mentioned that.

-The trash sorters in Grey terminal are a reference to Smokey Mountain dump-slum in Manila, Philippines where 30,000 people live as trash pickers, frequently dying from mass fires.

----------------------------------------------

When Rayleigh blocks Kizaru on the archipelago, it is a direct reference to a scientific term known as Rayleigh scattering.

Another more recent scientific reference is when donquixote doflamingo blocks Fujitora's meteors, it refers to The ESA's preliminary design of a space mission named Don Quijote, that, if flown, would be the first intentional asteroid deflection mission ever designed.

Boros showing of ze moves, at least a side character who isn't that weak.

SpoilerThe meaning of life

"Yes, in the evolution of mankind, the ass became the boob.

When man walked on four legs what lay before their eyes was the ass!

Ever since the day man began to walk on two legs, the ass no longer remained in front of their eyes. And what replaced them were boobs. Women's large mounds are a replacement for the ass! But the true origin of life is the ass, boobs are just a replacement, so...In the end, boobs are nothing more than fake asses!

And if I had to choose between the original and the imitation, of course I would choose the original!

And though I could go on to say that the course of evolution has led to the ass being hidden, back and away, it is that itself that gives the ass eroticism, and eroticism that which boobs, out in the open, could never have!"

Somehow, the chapter was kind of short and boring. We didn't get anywhere with Baam vs Daniel and Boro spent a lot of panels telling us that he's simply good at understanding the path and movement of swords.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

Just some food for thought that I thought I might bring to your attention, yesterday somebody @ batoto mentioned that this Hong Danhwa guy has the same surname/clan name as an S1 character, Hong Chunhwa. Both Chunwha and Danwha had ignition weapons before entering the tower (Narumada & Krishna), which according to the wiki SIU compares to having a supercar before even having a license which I assume to mean is a rare occurrence, so it might be safe to assume from these 2 fact that they're from the same family/clan/village and perhaps there are 5 more of these people that may potentially appear. Funnily they both also seem to be fanboys of particular girls (Sunwoo Nare & Yura Ha). Someone there also floated a theory that the mysterious person who spoke to Rak a few chapter back may be Hong Chunhwa.

found some references in One Piece to the real world through all these years.
This is what I found:

Characters from other tales:

- Monkey D. Luffy characterized as Gokuh, being a "monkey" both in name and behavior.
- Usopp as Pinocchio.
- Usopp (in Kuro arc) also representing the tale of The Shepherd's boy and the Wolf.
- Captain Kuro as Freddy Krueger.
- Sanji is "the invisible man". Although not literally speaking like Absalom, but he is the one that is unnoticed most of the times by marines or enemies until the very end.
- He is not found and depicted by the Unluckies.
- He doesn't meet anyone in Little Garden.
- He doesn't meet Mr.2 at the Merry and because of that Crocodile has no clue of him existing even
after he's tricked by Sanji.
- He doesn't meet anyone from Bellamy's crew or Blackbeard's crew in Jaya.
- He's not seen with his crew in Water 7. Allowing him to sneak into the Umi Ressha and the CP9 not
caring him until he tricks them.
- Marine's photographer can't take a pic of him and his wanted poster doesn't ressembles him at all, keeping him invisible at the world's eyes.
- Sanji is also a reference to Dragon Ball's Super Saiyans. Hair bristles (except eyebrow cover) and flames cover his body as the Super saiyan's aura or enerfy radiance.
- First, he "goes super saiyan" only led by his rage. (At Thriller Bark when said Nami is still kept by
Absalom).
- After training, he "goes super saiyan" at will. (As when ending the fight with Wadatsumi).
- Dracule Mihawk is characterized as Count Dracula. By name and also by his "home" and boat, depicting him as a vampire.
- Chopper as Rudolph.
- Chopper as Abominable Snowman.
- Mr. 2 Bon Kure as Lloyd Christmas (fom Dumb and Dumber) for his looks and as "The Mask" (from The Mask) for his power and behavior. Both characters played by Jim Carrey.
- Crocodile as Captain Hook.
- Crocodile referencing T-1000 from Terminator 2, when shot at the head in Impel Down.
- Pell as Horus.
- Chaka as Anubis.
- Van Augur as Adolphus from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Jesus Burgess as Albrecht "strongest man in the world" also from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Doc Q as the Queen of Snow White.
- Doflamingo as Spiderman.
- Gan Fall as Don Quixote (from his own story).
- Franky as a mix between Popeye and Ace Ventura.
- Hildon (Zombie nº 21) as Hiruma from Eyeshield 21.
- Absalom as a beast from The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Dr. Hogback as The Penguin from Batman.
- Ryuuma as himself from Oda's WANTED.
- Captain John as Captain Jonathan Flint from Treasure Island.
- Lola's Zombie as Peggy Muppets.
- Victoria Cindry (zombie) as Sally (from Nightmare before Christmas).
- Duval as "The man in the iron mask". (Obvious iron mask. He being some kind of "double" of another person).
- Peterman as (alternative) Robin Hood.
- Sentomaru as Kintaro.
- Boa Hancock is a reference to Medusa.
- Emporio Ivankov as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (from The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
- Inazuma as Edward Scissorhands.
- Inazuma as Cruela de Vil also.
- King Dew as He-man.
- A pirate from Whitebeard pirates ressembles Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII.
- Ace dies in a way similar to Gokuh dying for the first time.
- Sanjuan Wolf as Hagrid (from Harry Potter).
- Vasco Shot as Sloth (from The Goonies).
- Ame no Shilliew as General Washizaki.
- Panfleet Admiral Kong is modeled after Kongou Banchou.
- The past of Luffy, Ace and Sabo, a reference to Tekkonkinkreet.
- Sabo as Oliver Twist.
- His hat, one from Linda Perry (from 4 Non Blondes)
- Baron Tamago as a mix between Dr. Robotnik and the man from Monopoly.
- Baby 5, at least to me, totally looks like Babydoll (from Sucker Punch).
- Baby 5, in his torpede form, is a reference to Torpedo Girl (from Bobobo).
- Leo is modeled after Leo Messi (best soccer player). Maybe his crown unbends at the end of the summer depending on which country wins the World Cup...
- Wicca is a reference to WIlly wonKA.
- Sugar is a reference to Amélie Poulain.

Artists:

- Jango as Michael Jackson (hair style, moonwalk).
- Monkey D. Garp as Sean Connery
- Captain Bogard as Humphrey Bogart.
- Mr. 5 as Lenny Kravitz
- Lafitte as Iwatani Tokiko and Pinky and the killers.
- Donquixote Doflamingo as Michael Bolton dressed like Jean Michel Polnareff.
- Eneru as Eminem.
- Aokiji as Matsuda Yūsaku.
- Rob Lucci as Slash (from Guns'n'Roses)
- The unnamed CP9 from the past could be a reference to Brian May (from Queen).
- Brook as Jimmy Hendrix.
- Brook also as Michael Jackson. (Black man becoming white. Zombie. The 45º move.)
- Perona as Emillie Autumn.
- Killer as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (from Daft Punk).
- Eustass Kid's crew as a reference to different styles of Heavy Metal music (one per crewmate). And also his ability to manipulate metal.
- Basil Hawkins as Jordison (from Slipknot).
- Kizaru as Tanaka Kunie.
- Although most surely this was not Oda's intentions, Jinbe very much resembles Spanish-gypsy artist Falete.
- Akainu as Sugawara Bunta.
- Makugai as Gérard Depardieu in his role as Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask.
- This may be pure coincidence, but Shanks and Johnny Depp resemble each other.
- Fujitora as Katsu Shintaro.

Other character references:

- Shushu is modeled after Hachikō, the dog that waited for his dead owner everyday at Shibuya Station until he died too.
- Fishmen and merfolk play the role of black people. Notice that no character is black. Not even the ones with "afro hair".
- Blackbeard actually representing real life Balckbeard.
- The Gorosei members are modeled after some notorious people in history:
- One as Mikhail Gorbachev.
- One as Mahatma Gandhi.
- Foxy as Count Chocula.
- Vice-Admiral Yamakaji as Fidel Castro.
- Makro and his crew are a reference to the real life existence of black slave holders. Or any other example of someone enslaving his fellows.
- Trafalgar Law as Valentino Rossi aka "Il Dottore".
- Capone as reference to the Italian mafia.
- Magellan as Satan.
- Fisher Tiger as Che Guevara.
- Thunder Soldier is a reference to terrorist Guy Fawkes.

Culture:

- Arlong is a reference to Loan Sharks.
- Dorry and Brogy as the ogres from Naita Akaoni (The crying red ogre). Indeed, Brogy (the red ogre) is the one who cries as Dorry is still alive.
- Civil war is an episode of many and many nations all over the world, and it is the theme of Arabasta arc.
- American Colonial Wars (both in north america and in central and south america) are the theme for Skypiea's arc.
- The Davy Back Fight is reference to Davy Jones.
- The Admirals represent each a particular vision or feature of Justice:
- Aokiji represents the slow procedures justice (and burocracy in general) may take.
- Kizaru represents the corruption of justice. Chasing after something for unrighteous resons but
justifying it oficially as though it is a threat for people. Seen in his attitude of lying, saying that
something is terrifying and playing scared.
- Akainu represents the most strict and oppressing justice in which everything that could be seen as
a threat, a felony or a missbehavior must be punished. No excpetion.
- Fujitora represents the blind justice. Clear evidence is not enough. There must be some proof to
demonstrate guilt.
- Also, CP9 represents Machiavelli's most famous sentence "The goal justifies the means."
- Slavery is the theme for the Shabondy Arc.
- Jailers and chiefs in Impel Down are a referencte to the SS personal guard to Adolf Hitler.
- Hannyabal is another reference to ancient Egypt gods.
- Impel Down is based on Dante's representation of hell.
- Shi no kuni is a reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvio at Pompeia. (Check for images of the victims).

Architectonics:

- Logue Town ressembles Torino (Italy) or at least has architectonics similar to those of Piemonte region. Torino is just an example I came up with.
- Whiskey Peak has architectonics of Caribbean small towns in the colonial period. Maybe due to the Grand Line representing The Caribbean Sea, and Whiskey Peak being the first island seen there.
- Arabasta represents the Ancient Egypt.
- Water 7 is modeled after Venezia.
- Amazon Lily is a reference to the village from The Adventures of Asterix.
- Dressrosa is modeled after Spain in many ways.
- Culture, including the corruption.
- The gladiators fights, they existed for long time while Spain was part of the Roman Empire.
- Now, gladiators fights evolved into "tauromaquia". Shows where many men humilliate, torture and
assassinate bulls. That is why there are fighting fish (being half bull half fish) at the colosseum.
- Violet outfit and first appearance are reference to "flamenco" music and dancing genre.
- Many buildings at the streets exist in Barcelona (dessigned by Antoni Gaudí).
- The most famous appeared being "Parc Güell", which is actually the giant plateau where the royal
palace is.
- Also appears "Puente Grande" from Málaga.
- And the Royal Palace is in fact "La Alhambra" from Granada.

There are lots more references in names of characters and locations. But listing that would be much harder
------------------------------------------------------
There's more:
-Dr. Martin Luther King as Otohime and Fisher Tiger as Malcolm X (who advocated separation and whites as evil, then changed just before he died (after making a long trip to Mecca where he realized there were good white people, too), while MLK advocated peace and equality. Both were assassinated). Can't believe no one mentioned that.

-The trash sorters in Grey terminal are a reference to Smokey Mountain dump-slum in Manila, Philippines where 30,000 people live as trash pickers, frequently dying from mass fires.

----------------------------------------------

When Rayleigh blocks Kizaru on the archipelago, it is a direct reference to a scientific term known as Rayleigh scattering.

Another more recent scientific reference is when donquixote doflamingo blocks Fujitora's meteors, it refers to The ESA's preliminary design of a space mission named Don Quijote, that, if flown, would be the first intentional asteroid deflection mission ever designed.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

@DarkNemesis I don't think we should find all comparisons possible or anything like that but it seems kinda interesting to me. That S1 character seemed pretty insignificant besides having an ignition weapon which was noted to be a big deal but he barely did anything at all, Ansrossi jacked his sword to fight Quant which is almost all he was good for before this little reveal. Throwbacks to S1 like this new character are really nice, especially when they enrich the lore like this, perhaps now someone might be wondering how ignition weapons are made, it's not like the Workshop arc answered that and these Hong people seem to have a method. I mentioned Sunwoo Nare because of her close affiliation with Chunhwa so if the person who spoke to Rak a few chapters ago was Chunhwa I wonder if Sunwoo is with him. I'd like a charmer/subjugater to enter the story again since I think that's an interesting position and might lead to more Shinu'eh species being revealed.

All this talk about an insignificant seeming S1 character makes me wonder what the hell happened to Amigochez after Bam beat his ass so long ago.

found some references in One Piece to the real world through all these years.
This is what I found:

Characters from other tales:

- Monkey D. Luffy characterized as Gokuh, being a "monkey" both in name and behavior.
- Usopp as Pinocchio.
- Usopp (in Kuro arc) also representing the tale of The Shepherd's boy and the Wolf.
- Captain Kuro as Freddy Krueger.
- Sanji is "the invisible man". Although not literally speaking like Absalom, but he is the one that is unnoticed most of the times by marines or enemies until the very end.
- He is not found and depicted by the Unluckies.
- He doesn't meet anyone in Little Garden.
- He doesn't meet Mr.2 at the Merry and because of that Crocodile has no clue of him existing even
after he's tricked by Sanji.
- He doesn't meet anyone from Bellamy's crew or Blackbeard's crew in Jaya.
- He's not seen with his crew in Water 7. Allowing him to sneak into the Umi Ressha and the CP9 not
caring him until he tricks them.
- Marine's photographer can't take a pic of him and his wanted poster doesn't ressembles him at all, keeping him invisible at the world's eyes.
- Sanji is also a reference to Dragon Ball's Super Saiyans. Hair bristles (except eyebrow cover) and flames cover his body as the Super saiyan's aura or enerfy radiance.
- First, he "goes super saiyan" only led by his rage. (At Thriller Bark when said Nami is still kept by
Absalom).
- After training, he "goes super saiyan" at will. (As when ending the fight with Wadatsumi).
- Dracule Mihawk is characterized as Count Dracula. By name and also by his "home" and boat, depicting him as a vampire.
- Chopper as Rudolph.
- Chopper as Abominable Snowman.
- Mr. 2 Bon Kure as Lloyd Christmas (fom Dumb and Dumber) for his looks and as "The Mask" (from The Mask) for his power and behavior. Both characters played by Jim Carrey.
- Crocodile as Captain Hook.
- Crocodile referencing T-1000 from Terminator 2, when shot at the head in Impel Down.
- Pell as Horus.
- Chaka as Anubis.
- Van Augur as Adolphus from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Jesus Burgess as Albrecht "strongest man in the world" also from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Doc Q as the Queen of Snow White.
- Doflamingo as Spiderman.
- Gan Fall as Don Quixote (from his own story).
- Franky as a mix between Popeye and Ace Ventura.
- Hildon (Zombie nº 21) as Hiruma from Eyeshield 21.
- Absalom as a beast from The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Dr. Hogback as The Penguin from Batman.
- Ryuuma as himself from Oda's WANTED.
- Captain John as Captain Jonathan Flint from Treasure Island.
- Lola's Zombie as Peggy Muppets.
- Victoria Cindry (zombie) as Sally (from Nightmare before Christmas).
- Duval as "The man in the iron mask". (Obvious iron mask. He being some kind of "double" of another person).
- Peterman as (alternative) Robin Hood.
- Sentomaru as Kintaro.
- Boa Hancock is a reference to Medusa.
- Emporio Ivankov as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (from The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
- Inazuma as Edward Scissorhands.
- Inazuma as Cruela de Vil also.
- King Dew as He-man.
- A pirate from Whitebeard pirates ressembles Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII.
- Ace dies in a way similar to Gokuh dying for the first time.
- Sanjuan Wolf as Hagrid (from Harry Potter).
- Vasco Shot as Sloth (from The Goonies).
- Ame no Shilliew as General Washizaki.
- Panfleet Admiral Kong is modeled after Kongou Banchou.
- The past of Luffy, Ace and Sabo, a reference to Tekkonkinkreet.
- Sabo as Oliver Twist.
- His hat, one from Linda Perry (from 4 Non Blondes)
- Baron Tamago as a mix between Dr. Robotnik and the man from Monopoly.
- Baby 5, at least to me, totally looks like Babydoll (from Sucker Punch).
- Baby 5, in his torpede form, is a reference to Torpedo Girl (from Bobobo).
- Leo is modeled after Leo Messi (best soccer player). Maybe his crown unbends at the end of the summer depending on which country wins the World Cup...
- Wicca is a reference to WIlly wonKA.
- Sugar is a reference to Amélie Poulain.

Artists:

- Jango as Michael Jackson (hair style, moonwalk).
- Monkey D. Garp as Sean Connery
- Captain Bogard as Humphrey Bogart.
- Mr. 5 as Lenny Kravitz
- Lafitte as Iwatani Tokiko and Pinky and the killers.
- Donquixote Doflamingo as Michael Bolton dressed like Jean Michel Polnareff.
- Eneru as Eminem.
- Aokiji as Matsuda Yūsaku.
- Rob Lucci as Slash (from Guns'n'Roses)
- The unnamed CP9 from the past could be a reference to Brian May (from Queen).
- Brook as Jimmy Hendrix.
- Brook also as Michael Jackson. (Black man becoming white. Zombie. The 45º move.)
- Perona as Emillie Autumn.
- Killer as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (from Daft Punk).
- Eustass Kid's crew as a reference to different styles of Heavy Metal music (one per crewmate). And also his ability to manipulate metal.
- Basil Hawkins as Jordison (from Slipknot).
- Kizaru as Tanaka Kunie.
- Although most surely this was not Oda's intentions, Jinbe very much resembles Spanish-gypsy artist Falete.
- Akainu as Sugawara Bunta.
- Makugai as Gérard Depardieu in his role as Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask.
- This may be pure coincidence, but Shanks and Johnny Depp resemble each other.
- Fujitora as Katsu Shintaro.

Other character references:

- Shushu is modeled after Hachikō, the dog that waited for his dead owner everyday at Shibuya Station until he died too.
- Fishmen and merfolk play the role of black people. Notice that no character is black. Not even the ones with "afro hair".
- Blackbeard actually representing real life Balckbeard.
- The Gorosei members are modeled after some notorious people in history:
- One as Mikhail Gorbachev.
- One as Mahatma Gandhi.
- Foxy as Count Chocula.
- Vice-Admiral Yamakaji as Fidel Castro.
- Makro and his crew are a reference to the real life existence of black slave holders. Or any other example of someone enslaving his fellows.
- Trafalgar Law as Valentino Rossi aka "Il Dottore".
- Capone as reference to the Italian mafia.
- Magellan as Satan.
- Fisher Tiger as Che Guevara.
- Thunder Soldier is a reference to terrorist Guy Fawkes.

Culture:

- Arlong is a reference to Loan Sharks.
- Dorry and Brogy as the ogres from Naita Akaoni (The crying red ogre). Indeed, Brogy (the red ogre) is the one who cries as Dorry is still alive.
- Civil war is an episode of many and many nations all over the world, and it is the theme of Arabasta arc.
- American Colonial Wars (both in north america and in central and south america) are the theme for Skypiea's arc.
- The Davy Back Fight is reference to Davy Jones.
- The Admirals represent each a particular vision or feature of Justice:
- Aokiji represents the slow procedures justice (and burocracy in general) may take.
- Kizaru represents the corruption of justice. Chasing after something for unrighteous resons but
justifying it oficially as though it is a threat for people. Seen in his attitude of lying, saying that
something is terrifying and playing scared.
- Akainu represents the most strict and oppressing justice in which everything that could be seen as
a threat, a felony or a missbehavior must be punished. No excpetion.
- Fujitora represents the blind justice. Clear evidence is not enough. There must be some proof to
demonstrate guilt.
- Also, CP9 represents Machiavelli's most famous sentence "The goal justifies the means."
- Slavery is the theme for the Shabondy Arc.
- Jailers and chiefs in Impel Down are a referencte to the SS personal guard to Adolf Hitler.
- Hannyabal is another reference to ancient Egypt gods.
- Impel Down is based on Dante's representation of hell.
- Shi no kuni is a reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvio at Pompeia. (Check for images of the victims).

Architectonics:

- Logue Town ressembles Torino (Italy) or at least has architectonics similar to those of Piemonte region. Torino is just an example I came up with.
- Whiskey Peak has architectonics of Caribbean small towns in the colonial period. Maybe due to the Grand Line representing The Caribbean Sea, and Whiskey Peak being the first island seen there.
- Arabasta represents the Ancient Egypt.
- Water 7 is modeled after Venezia.
- Amazon Lily is a reference to the village from The Adventures of Asterix.
- Dressrosa is modeled after Spain in many ways.
- Culture, including the corruption.
- The gladiators fights, they existed for long time while Spain was part of the Roman Empire.
- Now, gladiators fights evolved into "tauromaquia". Shows where many men humilliate, torture and
assassinate bulls. That is why there are fighting fish (being half bull half fish) at the colosseum.
- Violet outfit and first appearance are reference to "flamenco" music and dancing genre.
- Many buildings at the streets exist in Barcelona (dessigned by Antoni Gaudí).
- The most famous appeared being "Parc Güell", which is actually the giant plateau where the royal
palace is.
- Also appears "Puente Grande" from Málaga.
- And the Royal Palace is in fact "La Alhambra" from Granada.

There are lots more references in names of characters and locations. But listing that would be much harder
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There's more:
-Dr. Martin Luther King as Otohime and Fisher Tiger as Malcolm X (who advocated separation and whites as evil, then changed just before he died (after making a long trip to Mecca where he realized there were good white people, too), while MLK advocated peace and equality. Both were assassinated). Can't believe no one mentioned that.

-The trash sorters in Grey terminal are a reference to Smokey Mountain dump-slum in Manila, Philippines where 30,000 people live as trash pickers, frequently dying from mass fires.

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When Rayleigh blocks Kizaru on the archipelago, it is a direct reference to a scientific term known as Rayleigh scattering.

Another more recent scientific reference is when donquixote doflamingo blocks Fujitora's meteors, it refers to The ESA's preliminary design of a space mission named Don Quijote, that, if flown, would be the first intentional asteroid deflection mission ever designed.

@Urek Mazino - Well I'm not saying that everyone stop and search for every parallel and association in the story. But part of what makes Bleach a fun manga to read is that story references itself in subtle ways and uses different events to piece together different sub-narratives. So it wouldn't be too bad if ToG did the same as well. We don't have to do that, but noticing or finding those connections are fun and adds more to the reading experience, IMO.

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Kubo's announcement will be his new work will be called Tide; not as strong as bleach but does its trolling in a more colorful fashion! - arcane_chaos

Spoiler

So, either Zennosuke's Zanpakuto hates him enough to let a Human pick it up, according to you, or Keigo is a secret Messiah who is loved by all Zanpakuto and can use all Zanpakuto. - saiyan

Great Chad will come from the sky. Diablo everything and make everybody feel high.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

@Urek Mazino - Well I'm not saying that everyone stop and search for every parallel and association in the story. But part of what makes Bleach a fun manga to read is that story references itself in subtle ways and uses different events to piece together different sub-narratives. So it wouldn't be too bad if ToG did the same as well. We don't have to do that, but noticing or finding those connections are fun and adds more to the reading experience, IMO.

One could always reread ToG for the effect 3:

@DarkNemesis I don't think we should find all comparisons possible or anything like that but it seems kinda interesting to me. That S1 character seemed pretty insignificant besides having an ignition weapon which was noted to be a big deal but he barely did anything at all, Ansrossi jacked his sword to fight Quant which is almost all he was good for before this little reveal. Throwbacks to S1 like this new character are really nice, especially when they enrich the lore like this, perhaps now someone might be wondering how ignition weapons are made, it's not like the Workshop arc answered that and these Hong people seem to have a method. I mentioned Sunwoo Nare because of her close affiliation with Chunhwa so if the person who spoke to Rak a few chapters ago was Chunhwa I wonder if Sunwoo is with him. I'd like a charmer/subjugater to enter the story again since I think that's an interesting position and might lead to more Shinu'eh species being revealed.

All this talk about an insignificant seeming S1 character makes me wonder what the hell happened to Amigochez after Bam beat his ass so long ago.

He's probably part of one of the groups. Remember that they have moved in smaller groups since their establishment. It's kind of like an organization already. 3:

I wonder if this is how FUG started. We already know that it's kind of how this whole tower business started in the first place, but with just one group(presumably). Urek Mazino's group seems to work like that as well.

"And no offense but if Wolverine is the voice of reason AGAINST violence... I would take that VERY seriously." - Ironman(Avengers issue 4)

"These units are part of a Hive Mind. If we could keep one of them intact - BEN!!"Sorry, stretcho. My fists only got one setting: CLOBBERIN'!" - Mr. Fantastic and The Thing about giant octopus robots(Amazing Spider-Man issue 648)

"Listen you probably just saved me from having "killed by tentacles in a kiddie pool" carved onto my tombstone. Let me give you some advice. There is an astonishing amount of powerful people in this world, and a lot of them are flat-out crazy. So... Trust me... you will ALWAYS be in over your head. Always. Unless you're Thor." - Spider-Man giving Spider-Girl advice(Amazing Spider-Man 648)

"Girls! Can we not talk about my love life while I'm beating up gang bangers? Please?!" - Spider-Man to Black Cat and Norah Winter(Amazing Spider-Man 649)

"War Machine: Ugh.. Wh-where the hell... Braddock: Relax, James. We're on Hala. In prison. Valkyrie: Your injuries are severe and you must not dislodge McCoy's sutures.War Machine: W-where's my war machine armor? Valkyrie: In the wreckage of the quintjet War Machine: Wrecked quintjet, trapped in prison, and you lost my armor? Braddock: And they plan to execute us. Soon. And The Phoenix is headed here. War Machine: Wow. I mean.... WOW. I really thought a suicide mission to fight the damned Phoenix Force was as bad as things could get. You all somehow managed to make things worse." - Secret Avengers 27

"Vision: While I'm confident I can counter this strange broadcast, it will only be in a limited area around me. Thor: Bah. Perhaps Mjolnir is the better solution. Beast: *Sigh* Yes, go beat the mind control out of the Kree population, Thor." - Secret Avengers 27

"Blind Al: Why do you constantly call me when you can't find something? Do you simply enjoy making fun of the disabled or--Deadpool: Because Al, blind people can see what normal people can't, duh. Geez... watch a kung fu movie.Blind Al: I can't. I'm blind." - Thunderbolts Vol. 2 Issue 10

"It starts every passage with "And so it came to pass", and goes on to read as if someone is trying to pretend they can be the King George edition and failing at actually grasping the writing of it.
Also, there's this amazing moment where it says that the people who rebelled against God were "cursed with dark skin".
Really?
You're not even going to try and hide it?" - Ganderath

"Relinquisher: The only reason I'm staying up is because of you.
Petite Fleur: Go to bed.
Relinquisher: No, because you want me to stay up.
Petite Fleur: Say the words. Say you want this. Nothing happens till I hear you say it.
Relinquisher: I want this." - Skype 2013

Jace: Let me get this straight. You came here to apologize to me?

Clary: Of course I did.

Jace: Clary, you saved my life.

Clary: I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire. - City Of Lost Souls

"Shut up. I can do this. I'm a ******* Superhero. I didn't condemn myself to burning in Hell for the rest of eternity for nothing, you hear me?" Sistah Spooky - Empowered Volume 5

Ninjette: So, how exactly do I end up dying?

Demongoat: I will not tell you that. But I will tell you this: as you would see it now and as you will see it, at the moment of your death, you will die well, Kozue.

Ninjette: Huh. Well, that's nice.

Demongoat: But long after you are dead, and this city is ashes and your species is extinct and this planet is a graveyard, and every star in its sky has gone dark, and all the universe beyond is lifeless and still I will carry your memory with me, perfect in every detail, into the next universe. - Empowered Volume 7

"Gentlemen, they say when you die you can't take it with you. Which begs the question: Exactly what am I gonna do with all these bullets?" - The Punisher (Secret Wars #1)

"Okay, so I'm not a good pickpocket, but when you think about it, bad guys are good pickpockets, so it's a win." - Gwen Stacy(Spider-Verse Vol 2 #1)

Sanctuary: Not Kara, you're only delaying the inevitable. Stop resisting and I'll make your demise easy and painless. Well, painless is a relative term. I can at least promise that I won't take any pleasure in your screams of agony. I'm not rude.

Supergirl: Trying to kill me over a miscalculation isn't rude?

Sanctuary: As these neural-scions will attest, I am the pinnacle of Kryptonian technology. I do not make miscalculations.

Supergirl: You're making one right now.

Sanctuary: Oh? And what is that?

Supergirl: *Punching neural-scion* That I'll ever go down without a fight.

Sanctuary: You mean the 99.87% probability that you'd try punching your way to a resolution? Yes, that's why I filled the neural-scions with a bonding agent. No offense, but you're really not much of a thinker.

He's probably part of one of the groups. Remember that they have moved in smaller groups since their establishment. It's kind of like an organization already. 3:

I wonder if this is how FUG started. We already know that it's kind of how this whole tower business started in the first place, but with just one group(presumably). Urek Mazino's group seems to work like that as well.

When you say one of the groups do you mean a team like the S1 team or Bam's S2 team or do you mean an organisation like Wolhaiksong or FUG?

found some references in One Piece to the real world through all these years.
This is what I found:

Characters from other tales:

- Monkey D. Luffy characterized as Gokuh, being a "monkey" both in name and behavior.
- Usopp as Pinocchio.
- Usopp (in Kuro arc) also representing the tale of The Shepherd's boy and the Wolf.
- Captain Kuro as Freddy Krueger.
- Sanji is "the invisible man". Although not literally speaking like Absalom, but he is the one that is unnoticed most of the times by marines or enemies until the very end.
- He is not found and depicted by the Unluckies.
- He doesn't meet anyone in Little Garden.
- He doesn't meet Mr.2 at the Merry and because of that Crocodile has no clue of him existing even
after he's tricked by Sanji.
- He doesn't meet anyone from Bellamy's crew or Blackbeard's crew in Jaya.
- He's not seen with his crew in Water 7. Allowing him to sneak into the Umi Ressha and the CP9 not
caring him until he tricks them.
- Marine's photographer can't take a pic of him and his wanted poster doesn't ressembles him at all, keeping him invisible at the world's eyes.
- Sanji is also a reference to Dragon Ball's Super Saiyans. Hair bristles (except eyebrow cover) and flames cover his body as the Super saiyan's aura or enerfy radiance.
- First, he "goes super saiyan" only led by his rage. (At Thriller Bark when said Nami is still kept by
Absalom).
- After training, he "goes super saiyan" at will. (As when ending the fight with Wadatsumi).
- Dracule Mihawk is characterized as Count Dracula. By name and also by his "home" and boat, depicting him as a vampire.
- Chopper as Rudolph.
- Chopper as Abominable Snowman.
- Mr. 2 Bon Kure as Lloyd Christmas (fom Dumb and Dumber) for his looks and as "The Mask" (from The Mask) for his power and behavior. Both characters played by Jim Carrey.
- Crocodile as Captain Hook.
- Crocodile referencing T-1000 from Terminator 2, when shot at the head in Impel Down.
- Pell as Horus.
- Chaka as Anubis.
- Van Augur as Adolphus from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Jesus Burgess as Albrecht "strongest man in the world" also from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Doc Q as the Queen of Snow White.
- Doflamingo as Spiderman.
- Gan Fall as Don Quixote (from his own story).
- Franky as a mix between Popeye and Ace Ventura.
- Hildon (Zombie nº 21) as Hiruma from Eyeshield 21.
- Absalom as a beast from The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Dr. Hogback as The Penguin from Batman.
- Ryuuma as himself from Oda's WANTED.
- Captain John as Captain Jonathan Flint from Treasure Island.
- Lola's Zombie as Peggy Muppets.
- Victoria Cindry (zombie) as Sally (from Nightmare before Christmas).
- Duval as "The man in the iron mask". (Obvious iron mask. He being some kind of "double" of another person).
- Peterman as (alternative) Robin Hood.
- Sentomaru as Kintaro.
- Boa Hancock is a reference to Medusa.
- Emporio Ivankov as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (from The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
- Inazuma as Edward Scissorhands.
- Inazuma as Cruela de Vil also.
- King Dew as He-man.
- A pirate from Whitebeard pirates ressembles Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII.
- Ace dies in a way similar to Gokuh dying for the first time.
- Sanjuan Wolf as Hagrid (from Harry Potter).
- Vasco Shot as Sloth (from The Goonies).
- Ame no Shilliew as General Washizaki.
- Panfleet Admiral Kong is modeled after Kongou Banchou.
- The past of Luffy, Ace and Sabo, a reference to Tekkonkinkreet.
- Sabo as Oliver Twist.
- His hat, one from Linda Perry (from 4 Non Blondes)
- Baron Tamago as a mix between Dr. Robotnik and the man from Monopoly.
- Baby 5, at least to me, totally looks like Babydoll (from Sucker Punch).
- Baby 5, in his torpede form, is a reference to Torpedo Girl (from Bobobo).
- Leo is modeled after Leo Messi (best soccer player). Maybe his crown unbends at the end of the summer depending on which country wins the World Cup...
- Wicca is a reference to WIlly wonKA.
- Sugar is a reference to Amélie Poulain.

Artists:

- Jango as Michael Jackson (hair style, moonwalk).
- Monkey D. Garp as Sean Connery
- Captain Bogard as Humphrey Bogart.
- Mr. 5 as Lenny Kravitz
- Lafitte as Iwatani Tokiko and Pinky and the killers.
- Donquixote Doflamingo as Michael Bolton dressed like Jean Michel Polnareff.
- Eneru as Eminem.
- Aokiji as Matsuda Yūsaku.
- Rob Lucci as Slash (from Guns'n'Roses)
- The unnamed CP9 from the past could be a reference to Brian May (from Queen).
- Brook as Jimmy Hendrix.
- Brook also as Michael Jackson. (Black man becoming white. Zombie. The 45º move.)
- Perona as Emillie Autumn.
- Killer as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (from Daft Punk).
- Eustass Kid's crew as a reference to different styles of Heavy Metal music (one per crewmate). And also his ability to manipulate metal.
- Basil Hawkins as Jordison (from Slipknot).
- Kizaru as Tanaka Kunie.
- Although most surely this was not Oda's intentions, Jinbe very much resembles Spanish-gypsy artist Falete.
- Akainu as Sugawara Bunta.
- Makugai as Gérard Depardieu in his role as Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask.
- This may be pure coincidence, but Shanks and Johnny Depp resemble each other.
- Fujitora as Katsu Shintaro.

Other character references:

- Shushu is modeled after Hachikō, the dog that waited for his dead owner everyday at Shibuya Station until he died too.
- Fishmen and merfolk play the role of black people. Notice that no character is black. Not even the ones with "afro hair".
- Blackbeard actually representing real life Balckbeard.
- The Gorosei members are modeled after some notorious people in history:
- One as Mikhail Gorbachev.
- One as Mahatma Gandhi.
- Foxy as Count Chocula.
- Vice-Admiral Yamakaji as Fidel Castro.
- Makro and his crew are a reference to the real life existence of black slave holders. Or any other example of someone enslaving his fellows.
- Trafalgar Law as Valentino Rossi aka "Il Dottore".
- Capone as reference to the Italian mafia.
- Magellan as Satan.
- Fisher Tiger as Che Guevara.
- Thunder Soldier is a reference to terrorist Guy Fawkes.

Culture:

- Arlong is a reference to Loan Sharks.
- Dorry and Brogy as the ogres from Naita Akaoni (The crying red ogre). Indeed, Brogy (the red ogre) is the one who cries as Dorry is still alive.
- Civil war is an episode of many and many nations all over the world, and it is the theme of Arabasta arc.
- American Colonial Wars (both in north america and in central and south america) are the theme for Skypiea's arc.
- The Davy Back Fight is reference to Davy Jones.
- The Admirals represent each a particular vision or feature of Justice:
- Aokiji represents the slow procedures justice (and burocracy in general) may take.
- Kizaru represents the corruption of justice. Chasing after something for unrighteous resons but
justifying it oficially as though it is a threat for people. Seen in his attitude of lying, saying that
something is terrifying and playing scared.
- Akainu represents the most strict and oppressing justice in which everything that could be seen as
a threat, a felony or a missbehavior must be punished. No excpetion.
- Fujitora represents the blind justice. Clear evidence is not enough. There must be some proof to
demonstrate guilt.
- Also, CP9 represents Machiavelli's most famous sentence "The goal justifies the means."
- Slavery is the theme for the Shabondy Arc.
- Jailers and chiefs in Impel Down are a referencte to the SS personal guard to Adolf Hitler.
- Hannyabal is another reference to ancient Egypt gods.
- Impel Down is based on Dante's representation of hell.
- Shi no kuni is a reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvio at Pompeia. (Check for images of the victims).

Architectonics:

- Logue Town ressembles Torino (Italy) or at least has architectonics similar to those of Piemonte region. Torino is just an example I came up with.
- Whiskey Peak has architectonics of Caribbean small towns in the colonial period. Maybe due to the Grand Line representing The Caribbean Sea, and Whiskey Peak being the first island seen there.
- Arabasta represents the Ancient Egypt.
- Water 7 is modeled after Venezia.
- Amazon Lily is a reference to the village from The Adventures of Asterix.
- Dressrosa is modeled after Spain in many ways.
- Culture, including the corruption.
- The gladiators fights, they existed for long time while Spain was part of the Roman Empire.
- Now, gladiators fights evolved into "tauromaquia". Shows where many men humilliate, torture and
assassinate bulls. That is why there are fighting fish (being half bull half fish) at the colosseum.
- Violet outfit and first appearance are reference to "flamenco" music and dancing genre.
- Many buildings at the streets exist in Barcelona (dessigned by Antoni Gaudí).
- The most famous appeared being "Parc Güell", which is actually the giant plateau where the royal
palace is.
- Also appears "Puente Grande" from Málaga.
- And the Royal Palace is in fact "La Alhambra" from Granada.

There are lots more references in names of characters and locations. But listing that would be much harder
------------------------------------------------------
There's more:
-Dr. Martin Luther King as Otohime and Fisher Tiger as Malcolm X (who advocated separation and whites as evil, then changed just before he died (after making a long trip to Mecca where he realized there were good white people, too), while MLK advocated peace and equality. Both were assassinated). Can't believe no one mentioned that.

-The trash sorters in Grey terminal are a reference to Smokey Mountain dump-slum in Manila, Philippines where 30,000 people live as trash pickers, frequently dying from mass fires.

----------------------------------------------

When Rayleigh blocks Kizaru on the archipelago, it is a direct reference to a scientific term known as Rayleigh scattering.

Another more recent scientific reference is when donquixote doflamingo blocks Fujitora's meteors, it refers to The ESA's preliminary design of a space mission named Don Quijote, that, if flown, would be the first intentional asteroid deflection mission ever designed.

When you say one of the groups do you mean a team like the S1 team or Bam's S2 team or do you mean an organisation like Wolhaiksong or FUG?

Could you elaborate on the bold points?

I mean all of the teams. We know from S2 that Kuun and them moved in several little teams, even taking on new members, and didn't use every person for every operation but spread them out across little ones and kept reserves of people.

I'm speculating if this taking in new members and building multiple teams is like how FUG or Urek's groups started. 3:

"And no offense but if Wolverine is the voice of reason AGAINST violence... I would take that VERY seriously." - Ironman(Avengers issue 4)

"These units are part of a Hive Mind. If we could keep one of them intact - BEN!!"Sorry, stretcho. My fists only got one setting: CLOBBERIN'!" - Mr. Fantastic and The Thing about giant octopus robots(Amazing Spider-Man issue 648)

"Listen you probably just saved me from having "killed by tentacles in a kiddie pool" carved onto my tombstone. Let me give you some advice. There is an astonishing amount of powerful people in this world, and a lot of them are flat-out crazy. So... Trust me... you will ALWAYS be in over your head. Always. Unless you're Thor." - Spider-Man giving Spider-Girl advice(Amazing Spider-Man 648)

"Girls! Can we not talk about my love life while I'm beating up gang bangers? Please?!" - Spider-Man to Black Cat and Norah Winter(Amazing Spider-Man 649)

"War Machine: Ugh.. Wh-where the hell... Braddock: Relax, James. We're on Hala. In prison. Valkyrie: Your injuries are severe and you must not dislodge McCoy's sutures.War Machine: W-where's my war machine armor? Valkyrie: In the wreckage of the quintjet War Machine: Wrecked quintjet, trapped in prison, and you lost my armor? Braddock: And they plan to execute us. Soon. And The Phoenix is headed here. War Machine: Wow. I mean.... WOW. I really thought a suicide mission to fight the damned Phoenix Force was as bad as things could get. You all somehow managed to make things worse." - Secret Avengers 27

"Vision: While I'm confident I can counter this strange broadcast, it will only be in a limited area around me. Thor: Bah. Perhaps Mjolnir is the better solution. Beast: *Sigh* Yes, go beat the mind control out of the Kree population, Thor." - Secret Avengers 27

"Blind Al: Why do you constantly call me when you can't find something? Do you simply enjoy making fun of the disabled or--Deadpool: Because Al, blind people can see what normal people can't, duh. Geez... watch a kung fu movie.Blind Al: I can't. I'm blind." - Thunderbolts Vol. 2 Issue 10

"It starts every passage with "And so it came to pass", and goes on to read as if someone is trying to pretend they can be the King George edition and failing at actually grasping the writing of it.
Also, there's this amazing moment where it says that the people who rebelled against God were "cursed with dark skin".
Really?
You're not even going to try and hide it?" - Ganderath

"Relinquisher: The only reason I'm staying up is because of you.
Petite Fleur: Go to bed.
Relinquisher: No, because you want me to stay up.
Petite Fleur: Say the words. Say you want this. Nothing happens till I hear you say it.
Relinquisher: I want this." - Skype 2013

Jace: Let me get this straight. You came here to apologize to me?

Clary: Of course I did.

Jace: Clary, you saved my life.

Clary: I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire. - City Of Lost Souls

"Shut up. I can do this. I'm a ******* Superhero. I didn't condemn myself to burning in Hell for the rest of eternity for nothing, you hear me?" Sistah Spooky - Empowered Volume 5

Ninjette: So, how exactly do I end up dying?

Demongoat: I will not tell you that. But I will tell you this: as you would see it now and as you will see it, at the moment of your death, you will die well, Kozue.

Ninjette: Huh. Well, that's nice.

Demongoat: But long after you are dead, and this city is ashes and your species is extinct and this planet is a graveyard, and every star in its sky has gone dark, and all the universe beyond is lifeless and still I will carry your memory with me, perfect in every detail, into the next universe. - Empowered Volume 7

"Gentlemen, they say when you die you can't take it with you. Which begs the question: Exactly what am I gonna do with all these bullets?" - The Punisher (Secret Wars #1)

"Okay, so I'm not a good pickpocket, but when you think about it, bad guys are good pickpockets, so it's a win." - Gwen Stacy(Spider-Verse Vol 2 #1)

Sanctuary: Not Kara, you're only delaying the inevitable. Stop resisting and I'll make your demise easy and painless. Well, painless is a relative term. I can at least promise that I won't take any pleasure in your screams of agony. I'm not rude.

Supergirl: Trying to kill me over a miscalculation isn't rude?

Sanctuary: As these neural-scions will attest, I am the pinnacle of Kryptonian technology. I do not make miscalculations.

Supergirl: You're making one right now.

Sanctuary: Oh? And what is that?

Supergirl: *Punching neural-scion* That I'll ever go down without a fight.

Sanctuary: You mean the 99.87% probability that you'd try punching your way to a resolution? Yes, that's why I filled the neural-scions with a bonding agent. No offense, but you're really not much of a thinker.

I'm speculating if this taking in new members and building multiple teams is like how FUG or Urek's groups started. 3:

FUG just started because Luslec (FUGs leader) is disgruntled by Zahard, its probably some personal beef they have between them. Zahard was said to be the strongest and the leader of the 10 warriors but maybe Luslec didn't agree with him becoming the official king over all of them. That being said FUG is basically Luslec's family, just like the 10 great families were developed is how FUG was developed.

Urek just attracted people to him with his power, he climbed super fast and stayed in the tower, there is a whole background story between him and Baek Ryun about how they developed the wing tree group. As for Ureks motivations he is looking for Phantaminum but for anyone who knows the backstory on Phantaminum its super unclear with urek would be looking for him or why hes even still in the tower.

[9:25:53 PM] Dewchete: Finaly perfect position
[9:25:56 PM] Dewchete: it's in
[9:25:59 PM] Dewchete: If I don't move it will be great
[9:26:10 PM] Dewchete: I had to play with it
[9:26:12 PM] Dewchete: So it would go through
[9:26:18 PM] Dewchete: But now it's good
[9:26:23 PM] Dewchete: It won't work while on commute though
[9:26:49 PM] Dewchete: So I have to make sure they touch and conduct
[9:26:53 PM] Dewchete: But I can't open it
[9:27:00 PM] Dewchete: Don't have the tools
[9:27:05 PM] Dewchete: So I just play with it until it's right
[9:27:45 PM] Dewchete: was doign this all day at work
[9:27:47 PM] Dewchete: Awkward position
[9:28:01 PM] Dewchete: for my face
[9:28:21 PM] Dewchete: how is brown unnatural

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

I mean all of the teams. We know from S2 that Kuun and them moved in several little teams, even taking on new members, and didn't use every person for every operation but spread them out across little ones and kept reserves of people.

I'm speculating if this taking in new members and building multiple teams is like how FUG or Urek's groups started. 3:

FUG just started because Luslec (FUGs leader) is disgruntled by Zahard, its probably some personal beef they have between them. Zahard was said to be the strongest and the leader of the 10 warriors but maybe Luslec didn't agree with him becoming the official king over all of them. That being said FUG is basically Luslec's family, just like the 10 great families were developed is how FUG was developed.

Urek just attracted people to him with his power, he climbed super fast and stayed in the tower, there is a whole background story between him and Baek Ryun about how they developed the wing tree group. As for Ureks motivations he is looking for Phantaminum but for anyone who knows the backstory on Phantaminum its super unclear with urek would be looking for him or why hes even still in the tower.

@Petite Fleur Pretty much what this guy said, that's basically how how both FUG and Wolhaiksong started. What's really disappointed me about FUG so far is there unexplained grand influence in the Tower. SIU did once state in blogpost that FUG is akin to a cult but I'm disappointed he hasn't more strongly shown that. Sure it's easy to see in the ctual members like Karaka, Poken and Jinsung but some of these people minor people who help them (like this train admin guy) show no clear signs of fanaticism or coercion. But I digress.

I forget. Did Phantaminum fight Urek before? Because I'm sure Urek would want to fight him anyway.

Also, now that Baam has Phan's weapon, it must be a matter of time until Phan and Baam meet. It may be when Baam finally gets to Wing Tree.

There's no news about bouts between me and Phant before we entered the tower. All we know is Phant was the 12th irregular who entered the tower and massacred a shitton of Zahard plebs, confronted Yuri without doing anything to her and then he disappeared after that incident. I came into the tower looking for him and climbed the tower in record time but wasn't given the #1 rank which I wanted, which Phant currently claim. The ranking officer publicly embarrassed me bluntly told me that if I faced Phant I'd lose, but seriously my attacks are light speed so whatever.

I think you're mixing up Phant with Enryu. Enryu is the irregular who fought and killed a Guardian, who were previously believed to be immortal and invincible, on 43F and then disappeared. The Thorn that Bam has is a remnant of that battle I believe, I could be wrong though. All shinsu around Enryu turns red btw which is the same colour as the thorn. And he can create life apparently and can use more than 9000 baang's of Shinsu.

found some references in One Piece to the real world through all these years.
This is what I found:

Characters from other tales:

- Monkey D. Luffy characterized as Gokuh, being a "monkey" both in name and behavior.
- Usopp as Pinocchio.
- Usopp (in Kuro arc) also representing the tale of The Shepherd's boy and the Wolf.
- Captain Kuro as Freddy Krueger.
- Sanji is "the invisible man". Although not literally speaking like Absalom, but he is the one that is unnoticed most of the times by marines or enemies until the very end.
- He is not found and depicted by the Unluckies.
- He doesn't meet anyone in Little Garden.
- He doesn't meet Mr.2 at the Merry and because of that Crocodile has no clue of him existing even
after he's tricked by Sanji.
- He doesn't meet anyone from Bellamy's crew or Blackbeard's crew in Jaya.
- He's not seen with his crew in Water 7. Allowing him to sneak into the Umi Ressha and the CP9 not
caring him until he tricks them.
- Marine's photographer can't take a pic of him and his wanted poster doesn't ressembles him at all, keeping him invisible at the world's eyes.
- Sanji is also a reference to Dragon Ball's Super Saiyans. Hair bristles (except eyebrow cover) and flames cover his body as the Super saiyan's aura or enerfy radiance.
- First, he "goes super saiyan" only led by his rage. (At Thriller Bark when said Nami is still kept by
Absalom).
- After training, he "goes super saiyan" at will. (As when ending the fight with Wadatsumi).
- Dracule Mihawk is characterized as Count Dracula. By name and also by his "home" and boat, depicting him as a vampire.
- Chopper as Rudolph.
- Chopper as Abominable Snowman.
- Mr. 2 Bon Kure as Lloyd Christmas (fom Dumb and Dumber) for his looks and as "The Mask" (from The Mask) for his power and behavior. Both characters played by Jim Carrey.
- Crocodile as Captain Hook.
- Crocodile referencing T-1000 from Terminator 2, when shot at the head in Impel Down.
- Pell as Horus.
- Chaka as Anubis.
- Van Augur as Adolphus from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Jesus Burgess as Albrecht "strongest man in the world" also from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Doc Q as the Queen of Snow White.
- Doflamingo as Spiderman.
- Gan Fall as Don Quixote (from his own story).
- Franky as a mix between Popeye and Ace Ventura.
- Hildon (Zombie nº 21) as Hiruma from Eyeshield 21.
- Absalom as a beast from The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Dr. Hogback as The Penguin from Batman.
- Ryuuma as himself from Oda's WANTED.
- Captain John as Captain Jonathan Flint from Treasure Island.
- Lola's Zombie as Peggy Muppets.
- Victoria Cindry (zombie) as Sally (from Nightmare before Christmas).
- Duval as "The man in the iron mask". (Obvious iron mask. He being some kind of "double" of another person).
- Peterman as (alternative) Robin Hood.
- Sentomaru as Kintaro.
- Boa Hancock is a reference to Medusa.
- Emporio Ivankov as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (from The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
- Inazuma as Edward Scissorhands.
- Inazuma as Cruela de Vil also.
- King Dew as He-man.
- A pirate from Whitebeard pirates ressembles Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII.
- Ace dies in a way similar to Gokuh dying for the first time.
- Sanjuan Wolf as Hagrid (from Harry Potter).
- Vasco Shot as Sloth (from The Goonies).
- Ame no Shilliew as General Washizaki.
- Panfleet Admiral Kong is modeled after Kongou Banchou.
- The past of Luffy, Ace and Sabo, a reference to Tekkonkinkreet.
- Sabo as Oliver Twist.
- His hat, one from Linda Perry (from 4 Non Blondes)
- Baron Tamago as a mix between Dr. Robotnik and the man from Monopoly.
- Baby 5, at least to me, totally looks like Babydoll (from Sucker Punch).
- Baby 5, in his torpede form, is a reference to Torpedo Girl (from Bobobo).
- Leo is modeled after Leo Messi (best soccer player). Maybe his crown unbends at the end of the summer depending on which country wins the World Cup...
- Wicca is a reference to WIlly wonKA.
- Sugar is a reference to Amélie Poulain.

Artists:

- Jango as Michael Jackson (hair style, moonwalk).
- Monkey D. Garp as Sean Connery
- Captain Bogard as Humphrey Bogart.
- Mr. 5 as Lenny Kravitz
- Lafitte as Iwatani Tokiko and Pinky and the killers.
- Donquixote Doflamingo as Michael Bolton dressed like Jean Michel Polnareff.
- Eneru as Eminem.
- Aokiji as Matsuda Yūsaku.
- Rob Lucci as Slash (from Guns'n'Roses)
- The unnamed CP9 from the past could be a reference to Brian May (from Queen).
- Brook as Jimmy Hendrix.
- Brook also as Michael Jackson. (Black man becoming white. Zombie. The 45º move.)
- Perona as Emillie Autumn.
- Killer as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (from Daft Punk).
- Eustass Kid's crew as a reference to different styles of Heavy Metal music (one per crewmate). And also his ability to manipulate metal.
- Basil Hawkins as Jordison (from Slipknot).
- Kizaru as Tanaka Kunie.
- Although most surely this was not Oda's intentions, Jinbe very much resembles Spanish-gypsy artist Falete.
- Akainu as Sugawara Bunta.
- Makugai as Gérard Depardieu in his role as Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask.
- This may be pure coincidence, but Shanks and Johnny Depp resemble each other.
- Fujitora as Katsu Shintaro.

Other character references:

- Shushu is modeled after Hachikō, the dog that waited for his dead owner everyday at Shibuya Station until he died too.
- Fishmen and merfolk play the role of black people. Notice that no character is black. Not even the ones with "afro hair".
- Blackbeard actually representing real life Balckbeard.
- The Gorosei members are modeled after some notorious people in history:
- One as Mikhail Gorbachev.
- One as Mahatma Gandhi.
- Foxy as Count Chocula.
- Vice-Admiral Yamakaji as Fidel Castro.
- Makro and his crew are a reference to the real life existence of black slave holders. Or any other example of someone enslaving his fellows.
- Trafalgar Law as Valentino Rossi aka "Il Dottore".
- Capone as reference to the Italian mafia.
- Magellan as Satan.
- Fisher Tiger as Che Guevara.
- Thunder Soldier is a reference to terrorist Guy Fawkes.

Culture:

- Arlong is a reference to Loan Sharks.
- Dorry and Brogy as the ogres from Naita Akaoni (The crying red ogre). Indeed, Brogy (the red ogre) is the one who cries as Dorry is still alive.
- Civil war is an episode of many and many nations all over the world, and it is the theme of Arabasta arc.
- American Colonial Wars (both in north america and in central and south america) are the theme for Skypiea's arc.
- The Davy Back Fight is reference to Davy Jones.
- The Admirals represent each a particular vision or feature of Justice:
- Aokiji represents the slow procedures justice (and burocracy in general) may take.
- Kizaru represents the corruption of justice. Chasing after something for unrighteous resons but
justifying it oficially as though it is a threat for people. Seen in his attitude of lying, saying that
something is terrifying and playing scared.
- Akainu represents the most strict and oppressing justice in which everything that could be seen as
a threat, a felony or a missbehavior must be punished. No excpetion.
- Fujitora represents the blind justice. Clear evidence is not enough. There must be some proof to
demonstrate guilt.
- Also, CP9 represents Machiavelli's most famous sentence "The goal justifies the means."
- Slavery is the theme for the Shabondy Arc.
- Jailers and chiefs in Impel Down are a referencte to the SS personal guard to Adolf Hitler.
- Hannyabal is another reference to ancient Egypt gods.
- Impel Down is based on Dante's representation of hell.
- Shi no kuni is a reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvio at Pompeia. (Check for images of the victims).

Architectonics:

- Logue Town ressembles Torino (Italy) or at least has architectonics similar to those of Piemonte region. Torino is just an example I came up with.
- Whiskey Peak has architectonics of Caribbean small towns in the colonial period. Maybe due to the Grand Line representing The Caribbean Sea, and Whiskey Peak being the first island seen there.
- Arabasta represents the Ancient Egypt.
- Water 7 is modeled after Venezia.
- Amazon Lily is a reference to the village from The Adventures of Asterix.
- Dressrosa is modeled after Spain in many ways.
- Culture, including the corruption.
- The gladiators fights, they existed for long time while Spain was part of the Roman Empire.
- Now, gladiators fights evolved into "tauromaquia". Shows where many men humilliate, torture and
assassinate bulls. That is why there are fighting fish (being half bull half fish) at the colosseum.
- Violet outfit and first appearance are reference to "flamenco" music and dancing genre.
- Many buildings at the streets exist in Barcelona (dessigned by Antoni Gaudí).
- The most famous appeared being "Parc Güell", which is actually the giant plateau where the royal
palace is.
- Also appears "Puente Grande" from Málaga.
- And the Royal Palace is in fact "La Alhambra" from Granada.

There are lots more references in names of characters and locations. But listing that would be much harder
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There's more:
-Dr. Martin Luther King as Otohime and Fisher Tiger as Malcolm X (who advocated separation and whites as evil, then changed just before he died (after making a long trip to Mecca where he realized there were good white people, too), while MLK advocated peace and equality. Both were assassinated). Can't believe no one mentioned that.

-The trash sorters in Grey terminal are a reference to Smokey Mountain dump-slum in Manila, Philippines where 30,000 people live as trash pickers, frequently dying from mass fires.

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When Rayleigh blocks Kizaru on the archipelago, it is a direct reference to a scientific term known as Rayleigh scattering.

Another more recent scientific reference is when donquixote doflamingo blocks Fujitora's meteors, it refers to The ESA's preliminary design of a space mission named Don Quijote, that, if flown, would be the first intentional asteroid deflection mission ever designed.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

What's really disappointed me about FUG so far is there unexplained grand influence in the Tower. SIU did once state in blogpost that FUG is akin to a cult but I'm disappointed he hasn't more strongly shown that. Sure it's easy to see in the ctual members like Karaka, Poken and Jinsung but some of these people minor people who help them (like this train admin guy) show no clear signs of fanaticism or coercion. But I digress.

I think FUG has plenty of influence. Remember back in season 1 on the floor of the tests, jinsung was pretty much in control of that floor and manipulated the whole exam to get ban and Rachel onto FUGs side, that's an impressive feat considering how pivotal irregulars seem to be to the tower. Especially considering every time someone mentioned Evankhell it was saying they need to avoid him or showing some kind of fear, hes like a top 100 high ranker, and FUG operated under someone like that's nose. Not even getting into all we have seen them manipulate and control in the rest of the series. I mean even the most recent ploy being with combining bam and the needle, it needed to be disrupted by one of the other 10 warriors, a man known for being the most knowledgeable in the tower.

Karaka shows the fanaticism of FUG pretty well, along with people like apple and others who talk about slayers being gods, i dont see how its not living up to its reputation in those senses.

All we know is Phant was the 12th irregular who entered the tower and massacred a shitton of Zahard plebs,

How do you know hes the 12th? Can you link to where that was revealed?

he Thorn that Bam has is a remnant of that battle I believe,

Apparently it just appeared after the battle, it was found after the battle was completed, so it could be anything. Its just FUG's belief that by re-igniting that it has the capability to kill a guardian and thus also kill zahard because he is blessed by a guardian with his immortality.

[9:25:53 PM] Dewchete: Finaly perfect position
[9:25:56 PM] Dewchete: it's in
[9:25:59 PM] Dewchete: If I don't move it will be great
[9:26:10 PM] Dewchete: I had to play with it
[9:26:12 PM] Dewchete: So it would go through
[9:26:18 PM] Dewchete: But now it's good
[9:26:23 PM] Dewchete: It won't work while on commute though
[9:26:49 PM] Dewchete: So I have to make sure they touch and conduct
[9:26:53 PM] Dewchete: But I can't open it
[9:27:00 PM] Dewchete: Don't have the tools
[9:27:05 PM] Dewchete: So I just play with it until it's right
[9:27:45 PM] Dewchete: was doign this all day at work
[9:27:47 PM] Dewchete: Awkward position
[9:28:01 PM] Dewchete: for my face
[9:28:21 PM] Dewchete: how is brown unnatural

I think FUG has plenty of influence. Remember back in season 1 on the floor of the tests, jinsung was pretty much in control of that floor and manipulated the whole exam to get ban and Rachel onto FUGs side, that's an impressive feat considering how pivotal irregulars seem to be to the tower. Especially considering every time someone mentioned Evankhell it was saying they need to avoid him or showing some kind of fear, hes like a top 100 high ranker, and FUG operated under someone like that's nose. Not even getting into all we have seen them manipulate and control in the rest of the series. I mean even the most recent ploy being with combining bam and the needle, it needed to be disrupted by one of the other 10 warriors, a man known for being the most knowledgeable in the tower.

Karaka shows the fanaticism of FUG pretty well, along with people like apple and others who talk about slayers being gods, i dont see how its not living up to its reputation in those senses.

How do you know hes the 12th? Can you link to where that was revealed?

Apparently it just appeared after the battle, it was found after the battle was completed, so it could be anything. Its just FUG's belief that by re-igniting that it has the capability to kill a guardian and thus also kill zahard because he is blessed by a guardian with his immortality.

When I was questioning FUG's influence, I was more referring to those people who aren't a part of FUG like the guy's who ran the Workshop battle and this new train admin guy. At least with the Workshop battle it seemed like a mutually beneficial trade up till the point FUG reneged. I want it to be shown more clearly why outside players would make a deal with FUG, if FUG garners a cult like following show it in the people not a part of FUG like it's been shown for people within FUG, that's why I took guy's like Jinsung, Karaka and Poken out of the mix. You're mixing up the name Jinsung and Hansung, Hansung is the genderbent guy from 2F and Jinsung is Bam's trainer guy from the Ha family, but I also remove Hansung and Augusgus from my scenario since they also seem pretty deeply entrenched in FUG.

I don't know that Phantaminum is the 12th but I'm just making an educated guess that he is since he entered after Zahard and the 10 family heads who are the earliest known irregulars to enter the tower. Unless there were more people I'm missing from that initial irregular group or Enryu entered before Phant, I think it's safe to say with what info we have that he is the 12th, so it's certainly not the right answer but it's the best one.

Side thought: I wonder if all or some of the 10 family heads are in a similar situation as Rachel in that Zahard was the one to open the tower and they followed the path he made?

Sure, there's no certainty of the thorn's origins but it's just a theory that's not at all far fetched so....

FUG's original plan was to fuse Bam with the thorn so that another person/slayer could wield the new weapon to defeat Zahard so I'm not sure whether the thorn was their master plan or if the irregular powering it was since only an irregular can kill Zahard since they're not bound by the same contracts that make Zahard and his 10 family buddies practically invincible. But Beta certainly also hyped up the thorn as something that was involved in the defeat of a Guardian which is tantamount to deicide in ToG so maybe it's both the irregular and the thorn.

found some references in One Piece to the real world through all these years.
This is what I found:

Characters from other tales:

- Monkey D. Luffy characterized as Gokuh, being a "monkey" both in name and behavior.
- Usopp as Pinocchio.
- Usopp (in Kuro arc) also representing the tale of The Shepherd's boy and the Wolf.
- Captain Kuro as Freddy Krueger.
- Sanji is "the invisible man". Although not literally speaking like Absalom, but he is the one that is unnoticed most of the times by marines or enemies until the very end.
- He is not found and depicted by the Unluckies.
- He doesn't meet anyone in Little Garden.
- He doesn't meet Mr.2 at the Merry and because of that Crocodile has no clue of him existing even
after he's tricked by Sanji.
- He doesn't meet anyone from Bellamy's crew or Blackbeard's crew in Jaya.
- He's not seen with his crew in Water 7. Allowing him to sneak into the Umi Ressha and the CP9 not
caring him until he tricks them.
- Marine's photographer can't take a pic of him and his wanted poster doesn't ressembles him at all, keeping him invisible at the world's eyes.
- Sanji is also a reference to Dragon Ball's Super Saiyans. Hair bristles (except eyebrow cover) and flames cover his body as the Super saiyan's aura or enerfy radiance.
- First, he "goes super saiyan" only led by his rage. (At Thriller Bark when said Nami is still kept by
Absalom).
- After training, he "goes super saiyan" at will. (As when ending the fight with Wadatsumi).
- Dracule Mihawk is characterized as Count Dracula. By name and also by his "home" and boat, depicting him as a vampire.
- Chopper as Rudolph.
- Chopper as Abominable Snowman.
- Mr. 2 Bon Kure as Lloyd Christmas (fom Dumb and Dumber) for his looks and as "The Mask" (from The Mask) for his power and behavior. Both characters played by Jim Carrey.
- Crocodile as Captain Hook.
- Crocodile referencing T-1000 from Terminator 2, when shot at the head in Impel Down.
- Pell as Horus.
- Chaka as Anubis.
- Van Augur as Adolphus from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Jesus Burgess as Albrecht "strongest man in the world" also from the Story of Baron Munchausen.
- Doc Q as the Queen of Snow White.
- Doflamingo as Spiderman.
- Gan Fall as Don Quixote (from his own story).
- Franky as a mix between Popeye and Ace Ventura.
- Hildon (Zombie nº 21) as Hiruma from Eyeshield 21.
- Absalom as a beast from The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Dr. Hogback as The Penguin from Batman.
- Ryuuma as himself from Oda's WANTED.
- Captain John as Captain Jonathan Flint from Treasure Island.
- Lola's Zombie as Peggy Muppets.
- Victoria Cindry (zombie) as Sally (from Nightmare before Christmas).
- Duval as "The man in the iron mask". (Obvious iron mask. He being some kind of "double" of another person).
- Peterman as (alternative) Robin Hood.
- Sentomaru as Kintaro.
- Boa Hancock is a reference to Medusa.
- Emporio Ivankov as Dr. Frank-N-Furter (from The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
- Inazuma as Edward Scissorhands.
- Inazuma as Cruela de Vil also.
- King Dew as He-man.
- A pirate from Whitebeard pirates ressembles Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII.
- Ace dies in a way similar to Gokuh dying for the first time.
- Sanjuan Wolf as Hagrid (from Harry Potter).
- Vasco Shot as Sloth (from The Goonies).
- Ame no Shilliew as General Washizaki.
- Panfleet Admiral Kong is modeled after Kongou Banchou.
- The past of Luffy, Ace and Sabo, a reference to Tekkonkinkreet.
- Sabo as Oliver Twist.
- His hat, one from Linda Perry (from 4 Non Blondes)
- Baron Tamago as a mix between Dr. Robotnik and the man from Monopoly.
- Baby 5, at least to me, totally looks like Babydoll (from Sucker Punch).
- Baby 5, in his torpede form, is a reference to Torpedo Girl (from Bobobo).
- Leo is modeled after Leo Messi (best soccer player). Maybe his crown unbends at the end of the summer depending on which country wins the World Cup...
- Wicca is a reference to WIlly wonKA.
- Sugar is a reference to Amélie Poulain.

Artists:

- Jango as Michael Jackson (hair style, moonwalk).
- Monkey D. Garp as Sean Connery
- Captain Bogard as Humphrey Bogart.
- Mr. 5 as Lenny Kravitz
- Lafitte as Iwatani Tokiko and Pinky and the killers.
- Donquixote Doflamingo as Michael Bolton dressed like Jean Michel Polnareff.
- Eneru as Eminem.
- Aokiji as Matsuda Yūsaku.
- Rob Lucci as Slash (from Guns'n'Roses)
- The unnamed CP9 from the past could be a reference to Brian May (from Queen).
- Brook as Jimmy Hendrix.
- Brook also as Michael Jackson. (Black man becoming white. Zombie. The 45º move.)
- Perona as Emillie Autumn.
- Killer as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (from Daft Punk).
- Eustass Kid's crew as a reference to different styles of Heavy Metal music (one per crewmate). And also his ability to manipulate metal.
- Basil Hawkins as Jordison (from Slipknot).
- Kizaru as Tanaka Kunie.
- Although most surely this was not Oda's intentions, Jinbe very much resembles Spanish-gypsy artist Falete.
- Akainu as Sugawara Bunta.
- Makugai as Gérard Depardieu in his role as Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask.
- This may be pure coincidence, but Shanks and Johnny Depp resemble each other.
- Fujitora as Katsu Shintaro.

Other character references:

- Shushu is modeled after Hachikō, the dog that waited for his dead owner everyday at Shibuya Station until he died too.
- Fishmen and merfolk play the role of black people. Notice that no character is black. Not even the ones with "afro hair".
- Blackbeard actually representing real life Balckbeard.
- The Gorosei members are modeled after some notorious people in history:
- One as Mikhail Gorbachev.
- One as Mahatma Gandhi.
- Foxy as Count Chocula.
- Vice-Admiral Yamakaji as Fidel Castro.
- Makro and his crew are a reference to the real life existence of black slave holders. Or any other example of someone enslaving his fellows.
- Trafalgar Law as Valentino Rossi aka "Il Dottore".
- Capone as reference to the Italian mafia.
- Magellan as Satan.
- Fisher Tiger as Che Guevara.
- Thunder Soldier is a reference to terrorist Guy Fawkes.

Culture:

- Arlong is a reference to Loan Sharks.
- Dorry and Brogy as the ogres from Naita Akaoni (The crying red ogre). Indeed, Brogy (the red ogre) is the one who cries as Dorry is still alive.
- Civil war is an episode of many and many nations all over the world, and it is the theme of Arabasta arc.
- American Colonial Wars (both in north america and in central and south america) are the theme for Skypiea's arc.
- The Davy Back Fight is reference to Davy Jones.
- The Admirals represent each a particular vision or feature of Justice:
- Aokiji represents the slow procedures justice (and burocracy in general) may take.
- Kizaru represents the corruption of justice. Chasing after something for unrighteous resons but
justifying it oficially as though it is a threat for people. Seen in his attitude of lying, saying that
something is terrifying and playing scared.
- Akainu represents the most strict and oppressing justice in which everything that could be seen as
a threat, a felony or a missbehavior must be punished. No excpetion.
- Fujitora represents the blind justice. Clear evidence is not enough. There must be some proof to
demonstrate guilt.
- Also, CP9 represents Machiavelli's most famous sentence "The goal justifies the means."
- Slavery is the theme for the Shabondy Arc.
- Jailers and chiefs in Impel Down are a referencte to the SS personal guard to Adolf Hitler.
- Hannyabal is another reference to ancient Egypt gods.
- Impel Down is based on Dante's representation of hell.
- Shi no kuni is a reference to the eruption of Mount Vesuvio at Pompeia. (Check for images of the victims).

Architectonics:

- Logue Town ressembles Torino (Italy) or at least has architectonics similar to those of Piemonte region. Torino is just an example I came up with.
- Whiskey Peak has architectonics of Caribbean small towns in the colonial period. Maybe due to the Grand Line representing The Caribbean Sea, and Whiskey Peak being the first island seen there.
- Arabasta represents the Ancient Egypt.
- Water 7 is modeled after Venezia.
- Amazon Lily is a reference to the village from The Adventures of Asterix.
- Dressrosa is modeled after Spain in many ways.
- Culture, including the corruption.
- The gladiators fights, they existed for long time while Spain was part of the Roman Empire.
- Now, gladiators fights evolved into "tauromaquia". Shows where many men humilliate, torture and
assassinate bulls. That is why there are fighting fish (being half bull half fish) at the colosseum.
- Violet outfit and first appearance are reference to "flamenco" music and dancing genre.
- Many buildings at the streets exist in Barcelona (dessigned by Antoni Gaudí).
- The most famous appeared being "Parc Güell", which is actually the giant plateau where the royal
palace is.
- Also appears "Puente Grande" from Málaga.
- And the Royal Palace is in fact "La Alhambra" from Granada.

There are lots more references in names of characters and locations. But listing that would be much harder
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There's more:
-Dr. Martin Luther King as Otohime and Fisher Tiger as Malcolm X (who advocated separation and whites as evil, then changed just before he died (after making a long trip to Mecca where he realized there were good white people, too), while MLK advocated peace and equality. Both were assassinated). Can't believe no one mentioned that.

-The trash sorters in Grey terminal are a reference to Smokey Mountain dump-slum in Manila, Philippines where 30,000 people live as trash pickers, frequently dying from mass fires.

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When Rayleigh blocks Kizaru on the archipelago, it is a direct reference to a scientific term known as Rayleigh scattering.

Another more recent scientific reference is when donquixote doflamingo blocks Fujitora's meteors, it refers to The ESA's preliminary design of a space mission named Don Quijote, that, if flown, would be the first intentional asteroid deflection mission ever designed.